Voting Without an ID: Because Who Needs Integrity in a Democracy Anyway?

Elections Designed by Lawyers and Toddlers—Congrats, America! You Need ID for Beer, but Not to Elect a President? Give Me a Break...

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The Dems don’t want people to have to show ID to vote, because they say it’s racist. That is a bunch of crap.

Meanwhile, the weak-kneed Republicans are so scared of their own shadows they can’t even broach the subject without breaking into a cold sweat over being called racists.

What we’ve ended up with is a voting system so gummed up you’d think it was designed by a committee of lawyers and toddlers. Armies of attorneys on both sides are on standby, ready to haul everyone into court over every little perceived affront to their side’s feelings.

It used to be that you could go to bed on election night knowing who the winners and losers were. Not anymore. Now it’s days, sometimes weeks of “we’re still counting” while the country stews in suspicion and media hysteria.

And here’s the kicker: in many other countries, Election Day is a holiday. Almost everyone shows up. They count ballots by hand. Results come in within hours. And yes, every single voter has a national ID card.

As a citizen of the supposed freest country in the world, you have a responsibility to carefully choose who you want to elect. Please, for the love of what’s left of this country, become educated before you walk into that booth.

I’m not usually a big-government kinda guy, but I’d make an exception for this. I would not be against a national ID card that every citizen must have verified and ready to use on Election Day.

Also, Election Day needs to be a national holiday, pick a Friday or a Monday and all retail should be closed. I don’t want to hear “come vote with your dollars at my store.” Everyone, and I mean everyone, has to have this valid national ID, or so sorry: you can’t cast a damn vote. Period.

Call me crazy, but if you need an ID to buy Sudafed, drive a car, or pick up a six-pack of Bud Light, maybe, just maybe, it’s not some horrific injustice to require one for picking the people who run the entire country.

And spare me the crocodile tears about “disenfranchisement.” You know what really disenfranchises people? Letting elections drag on for weeks while a merry band of attorneys, operatives, and bureaucrats “find” boxes of ballots in closets and car trunks. You want faith in the system? Try competence for a change.

By the way, if you missed it, President Donald Trump just threw a grenade into this whole clown show with an executive order that mandates proof of citizenship to vote in U.S. elections. According to The Epoch Times, the March 25 order will require every voter to show they are actually citizens. Critics are already crying foul, claiming it will “disenfranchise” people and promising to sue. Shocker. If you think that’s some radical step, you might want to reread the definition of “sovereignty.”

It’s embarrassing.

Other nations, some that barely have running water, manage to hold clean elections without a thousand lawsuits and the constant threat of riots. But here in the self-proclaimed “greatest democracy on earth,” we can’t figure out how to count paper without screwing it up or fighting about it on cable news for a month.

Make Election Day a holiday. Require an ID. Count the votes that night. And if you can’t be bothered to show up with a valid ID, you don’t get to decide who governs the rest of us.

Tell me I’m wrong.